Literary Terms Quiz
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- Fiction sub-genres (5)
- Historical Fiction, Horror, mystery, classics, romance
- Theme/Message
- Central message or life lesson of the literary work
- Genre
- Category or type of literature.
- Non-Fiction
- Prose that presents or explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects, and events. Essays, Reports, Letters, Biographies
- Schema
- your background knowledge and experiences...
- 3 main categories of genre in literature
- prose, poetry, drama
- Prose
- All writing that is not drama or poetry; usually written in paragraphs...fiction and nonfiction
- Literature
- all writings considered to have lasting value or all writing of a particular time period
- Realistic Fiction
- short stories and novels...Events that are based on true events, but aren't real. Could happen
- Setting
- Time and Place of the action
- Character
- a person or animal that takes part in the action
- Fiction
- Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events; short stories and novels
- Plot
- sequence of events in a literary work-usually begins with a conflict, then rising actions, climax, resolution